19th December saw the release of the Wordpress 2.9 (the ever popular CMS and blogging software) . As with all of the latest versions Wordpress can be upgraded from the main Dashboard. Below is a video of some of the new features which include:
Global undo/”trash” feature – very handy for when you change your mind [...]
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As mentioned in the previous post Microsoft Office 2007 Service pack 2 (SP2) would include support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) and would be released 28th April and here it is – Microsoft Download. SP2 is a 290MB download so you do not want to be on a slow [...]
In many recent talks that Outserve has given we have spoken about Microsoft Office supporting the OpenDocument Format (ODF) in the upcoming release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office. Outserve see that the No.1 office suite, used by millions of people worldwide, supporting ODF is an essential step forward in the adoption of [...]
A busy week for Outserve this week as we are attending two events and will be talking at both.
The first event on Tuesday 31st March will be the West Midlands IT Solutions Showcase at Millennium Point In Birmingham (pictured) where Outserve will be talking to local businesses about how Open Source software can help them [...]
It has been widely publicised that Microsoft Office 2007 will support OpenDocument Formats (ODF) from Service Pack 2 (which is expected to be released in the first half of 2009).
What may not be so widely known is that Windows 7 (the latest version of Windows which was available as a free beta) ships with a [...]
Many people ask me how people make money out of Open Source (especially in the enterprise software space). I often give the example of Sun Microsytems who are now a company who base nearly all of their business on Open Source (a big change for them from a few years back. Sun invest a huge [...]
OpenOffice.org, the very popular open source office suite, is well known for not being the fastest of applications but when working with large documents it can be become painfully slow as experienced by Adrian at Mercian Labels.
By far most recommended changes to try to speed up OpenOffice.org is to alter your settings under Tools>Options>Openoffice>Memory
My setting [...]
Some of the smallest problems are sometimes the most annoying. I had a call from a new OpenOffice.org user today who could not find the AutoSum button.
I know how he feels, we sometimes get so used to a certain interfaces that we can struggle with even the smallest change. OpenOffice 3 and its earlier versions [...]
The release of of OpenOffice.org 3.0, the free and open source equivalent to Microsoft Office, in October 2008 caused much excitement in the open source world with over 3 million downloads in the first week alone. The landmark release contained many new features and improved Microsoft Office document support including support for viewing .docx and [...]
Accounting Software is often overlooked when discussing open source software but it is actually very well supported from finance software for micro businesses right through to ERP systems for large companies. Whether you are looking at Quickbooks or Microsoft Dynamics there is an equivalent in open source.
To better explain the benefits of open source accounting [...]
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